[Hiring] Assistant Financial Controller @Motorola Solutions

Role Description

This role is primarily remote working with occasional visits to our London office.

• Maintain oversight of Airwave AR and AP teams in the UK and Poland, ensuring timely transaction processing, performing vendor/payment approvals and forecasting cash flow.
• Working with finance colleagues to ensure robust adherence to the Competition and Markets Authority’s charge control order, ensuring Airwave billing and revenue recognition is appropriate.
• Contribute to Airwave-related activities of the Motorola Poland FOC team, including intercompany transactions, fixed assets and depreciation, treasury, direct and indirect taxes, payroll, employee expenses and insurance.
• Perform and own Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) controls on monthly basis including approval of balance sheet reconciliations and managing balance sheet reviews.
• Ensure system integrity and GL allocation within SAP in association with Motorola Poland FOC team.
• Involvement in UK statutory audit processes, liaison with external auditors on critical audit issues and areas of judgment, and reviewing statutory accounts.
• Managing other UK compliance areas including prompt payment reporting, SME reporting, Ofcom submissions, adherence to LRQA ISO standards and ONS reporting.
• Contribute to implementation of new ‘Opportunity to Invoice’ sales system, including design and operation of associated finance business processes.
• Support the operation and development of the Airwave finance team, promoting best practice at all times and ensuring robust adherence to controls.

Qualifications

• Qualified Accountant (CIMA / ACCA / ACA) with at least 2 years PQE.
• Experience of dealing with a variety of stakeholders and working in a matrix organisation.
• UK resident with the expectation of achieving national security clearance to SC level, to obtain you must be a UK resident of 5 years minimum.
• Experience of a broad range of accounting and finance functions in a large corporate environment, including use of shared services finance teams, and group reporting requirements.
• Knowledge of the benefits of incorporating automation and AI into finance processes and the ability to identify and implement such opportunities.
• Excellent communication and social skills to develop effective internal and external relationships with Airwave colleagues, Motorola contacts and external stakeholders.
• The ability to work independently, self-motivate, organise yourself and prioritise your workload.
• Understanding of SOX environments and the ability to demonstrate the importance of controls, processes and best practice.
• Good systems skills, including Microsoft and Google software products.
• Ambition to learn and develop in a supportive yet challenging environment, showing potential to take on increased responsibilities within Airwave, and develop into wider roles within Motorola.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and bonus schemes
• Two weeks additional pay per year (holiday bonus).
• 25 days holiday entitlement + bank holidays.
• Attractive defined contribution pension scheme.
• Company Car Scheme
• Private medical insurance.
• Employee stock purchase plan.
• Flexible working options.
• Life assurance.
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay.
• Career development support and wide ranging learning opportunities.
• Employee health and wellbeing support EAP, wellbeing guidance etc.
• Carbon neutral initiatives/goals.
• Corporate social responsibility initiatives including support for volunteering days.
• Well known companies discount schemes.